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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"French Army"”.
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Generation du feu or incommensurable interpretations? A study of officer enlisted man relations in the French army during the First World War.
Abstract What was the nature of relations between French officers and enlisted men during the First World War? Soldiers’ testimonies from the First World War exist in profusion, allowing us to examine the interpretations of those who lived through it. Historians employing the diverse methods …
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"""Vive La Republique. Vive L'empereur."": Military Culture and Motivation in the Armies of Napoleon, 1803--1808"
… tend to emphasize Napoleon's betrayal of the French Revolution and the transformation of the French army into a professional force motivated by concepts of honor defined by self-interest. This dissertation proposes that over time, the Napoleonic regime did increasingly promote values such as …
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Coercion, Conversion and Counterinsurgency in Louis XIV's France
… efficacy (and cost-effectiveness) of using the army in such roles; (2) the practical problems of implementation encountered by the intendants, governors and other responsible officials, emphasizing the Crown's expectations with regard to local institutions, and (3) the impact and consequences of …
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A critical investigation of the opposition of the Rifi confederation led by Muhammed bin 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi to Spanish colonial expansion in northern Morocco, 1920-1925, and its political and social background
… Protectorate over Morocco in 1912, the Spanish army attempted to impose its authority over the part of north Morocco which was included in its zone. After the end of the First World War the Spanish were opposed in their efforts by a slowly growing coalition of tribes in the central Rif …
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Aspects of Form, Tonality, and Texture in the ''Farewell'' Piano Sonatas of Beethoven and Dussek
… Rudolph (1788-1831) on the approach of the French army. This sonata consists of three movements, and each movement has an individual title: (1) Das Lebewohl (Les Adieux), (2) Abwesenheit ( L'Absence), and (3) Das Wiedersehen ( Le Retour).;This research document presents a brief comparison of …
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‘A matter of persistence’: Lessons learnt by the British Expeditionary Force and its operational development following The Battle of Festubert, 15-25 May 1915
… of the historiography concerning the British Army in the First World War. It focuses on how well the BEF’s First Army, commanded by General Haig, was organised and equipped upon entering the battle. It draws upon First Army’s experience of two previous battles, one in March 1915 and another …
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Becoming an Agile Warrior - An Examination of using a Constructivist Approach to Learning During Basic Training in the British Army.
The British Army has been on the receiving end of Government cuts to numbers of full-time (regular) service personnel following the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review and proposed 2018 National Security Review. With numbers being reduced from 102,000 to 82,000, there could be a potential …
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Migration, Colonialism, and Belonging: Tunisians Around the First World War, 1911-1925
… for. Integrating materials from the Arabic and French popular press, colonial archives, and unexplored personal audiovisual archives from Tunisia, France, Italy, and Switzerland, it reveals how the contingencies of war created spaces for unprecedented encounters between North Africans and their …